BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- A senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official met here on Monday with a group of Tibetan monks who have received a senior academic title of Tibetan Buddhism.

You Quan, a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, called on Tibetan Buddhists to firmly safeguard the national unification and ethnic unity, and to promote the inheritance of Tibetan Buddhism.

The group of 40 monks received the senior academic title, one of the highest titles for Tibetan Buddhism, after passing an examination.